Firearms

Pistols

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.300 Blackout AR Pistol

.300 Blackout AR Pistol The cartridge built so a short barrel would stop being a compromise, worked through from the numbers: velocity against barrel length measured rather than assumed, why supersonic and subsonic are really two cartridges sharing a case, the brace-and-SBR law tracked to the agency’s own filings, and the chambering mistake that destroys the rifle. Live

Flux Raider

Flux Raider The Flux Defense Raider chassis family from the maker's own record — the Glock brace, the MP17, the Raider and the Raider X: how the P320 rides in it, what fits, how to install, keep and repair it from SIG's published manual, and how to plan further builds on it. Live

FP-45 Liberator

FP-45 Liberator The million-unit stamped-steel OSS single-shot .45 — built in 11 weeks, mostly never dropped. Live

Mauser C96 Broomhandle

Mauser C96 Broomhandle The real-firearm reference — 9×19 build target, also the canonical C96 donor for prop builds. Live

North American Arms Mini-Revolver

North American Arms Mini-Revolver The six-ounce, five-shot .22 WMR single action from Provo, documented around an owned NAA-22MS-P: its tangled Casull/Freedom Arms origin, the safety-slot mechanism and what NAA lets an owner touch, measured ballistics from a one-inch barrel, and carrying it under Michigan law. Live

Protector Palm Pistol

Protector Palm Pistol Turbiaux's 1883 squeeze-fired palm pistol — a radial turret magazine in a disc you hide in your fist. Live

Remington XP-100

Remington XP-100 The bolt-action pistol Remington built around a cartridge designed for it, told through the record rather than the folklore: ten factory chamberings with the years Remington itself gives, ballistics computed as a pistol instead of borrowed from rifle barrels, and what the single-shot and the XP-100R repeater are each actually for. Live

Ruger Mark III & Mark IV

Ruger Mark III & Mark IV The Ruger .22 automatic from Bill Ruger's 1946 patent through the Mark IV, told from Ruger's own manuals, spec sheets, recall notice and SEC filings: the mechanism, takedown, magazines, maintenance and repair, and the Mark III Target and Mark IV documented here. Live

SIG P320-M17

SIG P320-M17 The commercial M17 and the Army programme behind it, the fire control unit that federal regulation names as the firearm, the drop-safety and litigation record told from the documents, and one pistol rebuilt part by part in a Flux Raider X chassis. Live

Springfield Armory XD(M) .40

Springfield Armory XD(M) .40 The Croatian-designed, Springfield-sold XD(M) told from the maker's own manual and catalogue — the HS2000 lineage, a grip safety that also locks the slide, the .40 S&W's rise and the FBI memo that ended it — with the trigger kit, tritium sights and weapon light fitted to one .40 examined against their makers' own statements. Live

Smith & Wesson Model 41

Smith & Wesson Model 41 The .22 target pistol Smith & Wesson made for American bullseye shooting from 1957 to 2025, told from the maker's own manuals and 1957 patents rather than the retellings: every production change with the source for its date, how to date a gun from its markings, a mechanism whose sights never move, and an accuracy reputation measured against the target it was built for. Live

Smith & Wesson M&P Shield

Smith & Wesson M&P Shield The pistol that made the slim striker-fired nine the default carry gun, read from Smith & Wesson's own manuals, patents and parts listings: five pistols under one name, how to tell them apart, what the maker says about magazines, and a DeltaPoint Micro in the rear-sight dovetail. Live

Whitney Wolverine

Whitney Wolverine Robert Hillberg's 1956 aluminium-framed .22 — the ‘space age’ pistol — from the aircraft-armament career behind it and the contract that sank it, through the mechanism, serials, finishes and upkeep, to the Olympic Arms polymer reissue and its collecting and pop-culture life. Live